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SIXTEEN HORSES cover quotes are in!
Hi everyone, thank you for visiting my page and hopefully reading my novel Sixteen Horses or considering adding it to your read list!
We've recently gathered a selection of author quotes for the UK edition's blurb, and I wanted to thank all those writers who have supported the book so far - really glad they've enjoyed it, and can't wait to see what others think:
“Dark, visceral and disturbing, this highly suspenseful and beautifully written thriller is totally gripping from start to finish. A hugely impressive debut.” - Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient
“Unlike anything else you’ll read this year, SIXTEEN HORSES is a deeply disconcerting ride. Irresistible.” - Val McDermid, author of Still Life
“Original, beautifully written, terrifying and haunting. I won't forget this novel.” - Sophie Hannah, author of Haven't They Grown
“Utterly brilliant. Poetry and cinema at once. If this isn’t one of the biggest titles of 2021 I’ll eat my hat.” - C.J. Cooke, author of The Nesting
“Poignant, chilling, eerie, and gruesome, SIXTEEN HORSES is a thriller with a literary soul, perfect for fans of Netflix's Dark or BBC's Top of the Lake. Buchanan impressively balances horror and empathy, showing real evil while also exploring the human cost of economic collapse. A unique, ambitious debut that left me shocked and enthralled.” - Sara Sligar, author of Take Me Apart
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The novel starts with the discovery of sixteen horse heads buried on a farm near a dying seaside town. Two people lead the case: a local police detective (Alec Nichols: he’s a single father, overly concerned with whether people like him, lonely and suffering from difficulty sleeping) and a forensic vet (Cooper Allen: she’s a former practicing veterinary surgeon, awkward, stubborn, obsessive). The two form a tentative friendship as they look into this disturbing case. Soon it becomes clear that the crime is connected to multiple others, including arson, mutilations, and disappearances. The town falls into hysteria, and the two investigators find themselves unable to leave...
The book is about a lot of different things: decay, guilt, trauma, economic and social collapse, the changing environment, the way we treat animals, the veterinary profession, and more: an emotionally-driven, dark thriller novel with some almost-horror touches.
I'll be sharing more about it all in the weeks ahead (as well as getting through my own TBR pile and posting some reviews of my own online!), so I look forward to seeing more of you on here and getting to know the site!
We've recently gathered a selection of author quotes for the UK edition's blurb, and I wanted to thank all those writers who have supported the book so far - really glad they've enjoyed it, and can't wait to see what others think:
“Dark, visceral and disturbing, this highly suspenseful and beautifully written thriller is totally gripping from start to finish. A hugely impressive debut.” - Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient
“Unlike anything else you’ll read this year, SIXTEEN HORSES is a deeply disconcerting ride. Irresistible.” - Val McDermid, author of Still Life
“Original, beautifully written, terrifying and haunting. I won't forget this novel.” - Sophie Hannah, author of Haven't They Grown
“Utterly brilliant. Poetry and cinema at once. If this isn’t one of the biggest titles of 2021 I’ll eat my hat.” - C.J. Cooke, author of The Nesting
“Poignant, chilling, eerie, and gruesome, SIXTEEN HORSES is a thriller with a literary soul, perfect for fans of Netflix's Dark or BBC's Top of the Lake. Buchanan impressively balances horror and empathy, showing real evil while also exploring the human cost of economic collapse. A unique, ambitious debut that left me shocked and enthralled.” - Sara Sligar, author of Take Me Apart
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The novel starts with the discovery of sixteen horse heads buried on a farm near a dying seaside town. Two people lead the case: a local police detective (Alec Nichols: he’s a single father, overly concerned with whether people like him, lonely and suffering from difficulty sleeping) and a forensic vet (Cooper Allen: she’s a former practicing veterinary surgeon, awkward, stubborn, obsessive). The two form a tentative friendship as they look into this disturbing case. Soon it becomes clear that the crime is connected to multiple others, including arson, mutilations, and disappearances. The town falls into hysteria, and the two investigators find themselves unable to leave...
The book is about a lot of different things: decay, guilt, trauma, economic and social collapse, the changing environment, the way we treat animals, the veterinary profession, and more: an emotionally-driven, dark thriller novel with some almost-horror touches.
I'll be sharing more about it all in the weeks ahead (as well as getting through my own TBR pile and posting some reviews of my own online!), so I look forward to seeing more of you on here and getting to know the site!
CONSUMED now on preorder and Netgalley
Hi everyone!
A couple of years on from my debut Sixteen Horses, my new novel Consumed is now available for preorder and Netgalley requests! It stands alone as a dark crime mystery story, though plenty of easter eggs and a returning character for those who enjoyed 16H!
I wanted to share the first blogger review - it completely captures the gothic tone I was aiming for with this novel and it was so lovely to see this to up yesterday! Thank you to the blogger community as always and I hope the others who read it enjoy just as much!
Premise:
An old woman falls down in a field and - unable to move - is consumed overnight by her two pigs.
In her house, someone has removed all photos from their frames, erasing her past.
An accident, or murder?
Review (5 stars) on Netgalley:
If you like your reads with a distinctly gothic vibe, you’ll be right at home with Consumed. Forensic veterinarian Cooper Allen becomes entangled with the disappearance of a child. Also involved is lauded photographer Sophia Bertilak. Cooper is a hard individual to be get the measure of. Given to self analysis and flights of fancy, Cooper appears rudderless but has a feel for those things that hover just outside of our surroundings. The story focuses on Cooper and Sophia and how they are connected to the missing child but the narrative doesn’t follow traditional detective or missing person crime novels. The whole is more of a walk through ancient woods, never quite knowing where your next step will take you and questioning whether it is night or day. The quotes at the beginning of each chapter add a delicious sense of the ethereal to proceedings and with the supporting characters often having opaque agendas, you feel assured of some unhappy outcomes.
A foreboding and wicked read, ideally enjoyed in a haunted house with a rocking chair creaking somewhere.
Note from Greg:
If you loved Sixteen Horses I am pretty sure you’ll love this, but it’s not required by any means - and in many ways, purposefully inverts various elements from my debut novel. A rich inland hilly town full of ruins and forests vs the poor isolated seaside community of the previous book; a case where the police and investigators seem almost antagonists rather than partners; the inciting incident being the death of a human at the hands of animals rather than the reverse; and much much more waiting to be discovered.
ADD TO GOODREADS:
Consumed
REQUEST:
https://www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/b...
PREORDER:
https://geni.us/CONSUMED
A couple of years on from my debut Sixteen Horses, my new novel Consumed is now available for preorder and Netgalley requests! It stands alone as a dark crime mystery story, though plenty of easter eggs and a returning character for those who enjoyed 16H!
I wanted to share the first blogger review - it completely captures the gothic tone I was aiming for with this novel and it was so lovely to see this to up yesterday! Thank you to the blogger community as always and I hope the others who read it enjoy just as much!
Premise:
An old woman falls down in a field and - unable to move - is consumed overnight by her two pigs.
In her house, someone has removed all photos from their frames, erasing her past.
An accident, or murder?
Review (5 stars) on Netgalley:
If you like your reads with a distinctly gothic vibe, you’ll be right at home with Consumed. Forensic veterinarian Cooper Allen becomes entangled with the disappearance of a child. Also involved is lauded photographer Sophia Bertilak. Cooper is a hard individual to be get the measure of. Given to self analysis and flights of fancy, Cooper appears rudderless but has a feel for those things that hover just outside of our surroundings. The story focuses on Cooper and Sophia and how they are connected to the missing child but the narrative doesn’t follow traditional detective or missing person crime novels. The whole is more of a walk through ancient woods, never quite knowing where your next step will take you and questioning whether it is night or day. The quotes at the beginning of each chapter add a delicious sense of the ethereal to proceedings and with the supporting characters often having opaque agendas, you feel assured of some unhappy outcomes.
A foreboding and wicked read, ideally enjoyed in a haunted house with a rocking chair creaking somewhere.
Note from Greg:
If you loved Sixteen Horses I am pretty sure you’ll love this, but it’s not required by any means - and in many ways, purposefully inverts various elements from my debut novel. A rich inland hilly town full of ruins and forests vs the poor isolated seaside community of the previous book; a case where the police and investigators seem almost antagonists rather than partners; the inciting incident being the death of a human at the hands of animals rather than the reverse; and much much more waiting to be discovered.
ADD TO GOODREADS:
Consumed
REQUEST:
https://www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/b...
PREORDER:
https://geni.us/CONSUMED
